Jenna FitzGerald
Jenna FitzGerald is a multidisciplinary artist from Toronto whose work explores the intersection of technology and nature, inspired by both organic and digital imagery and materials. Her artworks reflect impermanence in the digital age and create new mythologies to reveal the magic in the world all around us, as well as our current moment within the Anthropocene.
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Annapoorane Rajagopal Valarmathy
Annapoorane Rajagopal Valarmathy is a design practitioner, born and raised in Chennai, India. She relocated to Canada to pursue her Bachelor of Design in Industrial Design at OCAD University. As part of her degree program, she created ‘Life Trajectories’ –a scaffolding experience that helps students navigate uncertainty through playful strategizing. She is keen on creating engaging experiences and collaborating with others to co-create meaningful systems. In her spare time, she focuses on origami, writing, art, 3D printing, and other craftwork. As a maker, she focuses on using different materials like wood, paper, cardboard, cloth and plastic to explore artistic expression. She enjoys facilitating play experiences with young children, taking the opportunity to learn from their curiosity and thinking. She takes…Find out more

The Creative Food Research Collaboratory
The Creative Food Research Collaboratory germinates collaborations at the intersection of art and food studies, exploring how the arts can imagine—and therefore help to achieve—food security, food sovereignty, and food justice in Canada and across the Americas.
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Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan facilitating a public discussion as part of her curatorial and public programming practice. Photo Credit: Photo by Henry Chan

Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan

Shalon T. Webber-Heffernan, PhD is an independent curator, educator, and writer. Curating the Village emerges from a larger research-creation project supported by Balancing Act Canada’s Level UP! initiative, exploring caregiving as a condition that shapes artistic and curatorial labour.

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SA Smythe

SA Smythe is a critical theorist, multi-instrumentalist, and transmedia storyteller whose work conjures black belonging and thriving relations beyond borders. Rooted in this antecartographic practice, Smythe weaves together poetics, performance, interactive light sculptures, soundscape compositions, monoprints, and archival ephemera. Their transmedia works have been featured internationally in solo and collaborative performances, film and multimedia installations, anthologies, and festivals. They currently work as Associate Professor of Black Studies & the Archive at the University of Toronto, where they direct the Collaboratory for Black Poiēsis, a multidisciplinary hub and collaborative atelier dedicated to Black Studies research and Black⇌Indigenous aesthetic interventions.

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